Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti submitted Kosovo’s official application for membership in the European Union on 15 December 2022, but three years on it has still not reached the table of the EU Council. As the main obstacles, interlocutors for Kosovo Online cite the fact that five EU member states do not recognize Kosovo as a state, as well as Kosovo’s failure to meet criteria related to the protection of minority rights and to fulfill the international legal obligations it undertook in the process of normalizing relations with Belgrade.